White Sox Stadium Will Be Built

October 7, 1988

CHICAGO -- Ill. Gov. James Thompson said that the city-state agency about to build a new stadium for the Chicago White Sox will go ahead and sell $150 million in tax-exempt stadium bonds even if the U.S. Congress does not approve the deal.

``We`re selling the bonds regardless,`` the governor said when asked what would happen if the U.S. Senate does not pass a book-length list of technical corrections to the 1986 Tax Reform Act. One of the hundreds of changes on the list would specifically exempt the new ballpark from the act`s ban on the use of tax-free bonds for sports stadiums.